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13 - Wildlife Disease Dynamics in Carnivore and Herbivore Hosts in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park

from Part III - Where Science and Conservation Management Meet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sally Archibald
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Norman Owen-Smith
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story
, pp. 311 - 335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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